{"id":16291,"date":"2014-04-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16291"},"modified":"2014-04-07T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:15:36","slug":"today-is-april-8th-2014-the-day-that-windows-xp-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16291","title":{"rendered":"Today Is April 8th 2014 &ndash; The Day That Windows XP Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who are negligent. There are those who tried to think Microsoft would never let this happen (some would say these deniers are also negligent). Today is the day that we finally reach the end of support for Windows XP.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it; Windows XP was released in 2001. That is 13 years ago! How computers and usage has changed since then. Battery life wasn\u2019t an issue. Attacks on security were different. Touch was a thing you did with a loved one (I hope that\u2019s not your phone!). Roaming was when your phone bill rocketed (OK, that hasn\u2019t changed much). <\/p>\n<p>And Windows XP was also greeted with much derision. People were going to cling to Windows NT 4.0 with their cold dead hands. XP was even called \u201cWindows Telly Tubbies\u201d (after the default wallpaper) and \u201cWindows Fischer Price\u201d (FP instead of XP). Admins hated that things had move around. \u201cOh! imagine the amount of user training that will be required\u201d. Sound familiar? It took the eventual end of support for NT 4.0 to force people to upgrade, eventually to Windows XP. And in the end, the world kept turning, the earth didn\u2019t swallow us whole, and businesses kept ticking along. Hell, I did a project in 2003 where we blasted away Windows NT 4.0 &amp; Office 97 with Windows XP &amp; Office XP (before Office 2003 was out) and we did very little in the way of user training.<\/p>\n<p>So, bye bye Windows XP \u2026 except for you laggards who are clinging to this now dead OS in your career graves.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/luGT3n3xQ8Y\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And no, I don\u2019t care to hear sob stories about \u201cI must use XP\u201d.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And while we\u2019re at it, we\u2019re also bye bye also to a range of other products:<\/p>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Office 2003, and all the sub-components<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Content Management Server 2002<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Exchange Server 2003<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">InterConnect 2004 Standard (no idea what it is!)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">InfoPath 2003<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">FrontPage 2003<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Project Server 2003<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">SharePoint Portal Server 2003<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Virtual PC 2004<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Visio 2003<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Windows Services for UNIX 3.5<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">And yeah, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Yah suckahs \u2026 tell me that Apple invented the tablet!!! Jean Luc Picard was getting all touchy feely long before Apple copied the tablet concept (admittedly making is actually useful).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:011c7c21-bd07-41f2-b0aa-bbb78ea10b05\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+XP\" rel=\"tag\">Windows XP<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who are negligent. There are those who tried to think Microsoft would never let this happen (some would say these deniers are also negligent). Today is the day that we finally reach the end of support for Windows XP. Think about it; Windows XP was released in 2001. That is 13 years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today Is April 8th 2014 &ndash; The Day That Windows XP Died&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-16291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16292,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}